When the team is losing and the time comes for penalties, soccer goalkeepers tend to move to the right, according to a study published in the journal Psychological Science. Marieke Roskes and her colleagues at the University of Amsterdam came to this conclusion after studying the penalty shoot-outs in all the matches of the Soccer World Championships from 1982 to 2010.
When the rain wets our suit or we have just taken the laundry out of the washing machine, the fabric is darker than when it dries. This effect has to do with the refraction of light. Between the fibers of the tissues there are usually spaces, so that if a beam of light falls, they reflect it for the most part.
On the free edge of the eyelids of the eyes are the Meibomius glands (25 to 30 in the upper eyelid and 20 to 25 in the lower eyelid), secreting a thick lubricating gel that, when dried, forms a binding material known as legañas.
With this eponym, we know the increase in suicide cases that follow the appearance of stories about real suicide cases in the newspapers and that occur in geographically close areas of distribution of the medium. It is also known as the "copycat effect", and is more likely when the model is a celebrity.
The Dutch biologist Arnold Van Vliet has embarked on a curious mission: to find out how many mosquitoes and insects die crashed into vehicles that circulate on the roads. To carry out its particular census, it has launched the "Splash Teller" website, in which Dutch drivers are invited to count how many insects have crashed into the front license plate of their vehicle and send the data together with the distance traveled.
During sleep the lymphatic circulation slows down, causing a certain accumulation of fluid in the spongy tissues of the lower eyelid, where the skin is five to ten times thinner than other areas of the body.
Yes. Specifically, up to six times more. Sometimes lightning reaches 10,000 million kilowatts, that is, 7,000 times the power of a nuclear power plant. The air in the discharge channel heats up sharply to about 30,000 degrees Celsius.
In the United States, England and Spain, among other countries, July is the month in which more boys and girls are born, followed by August. Paul Sutton, a demography expert at the US Center for Disease Control, suggests that this trend is explained by the fact that in late fall and early spring people tend to spend more time at home and give themselves more opportunities for pregnancy.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
